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Again with the elephant? When last we saw Kham, a Thai martial arts expert and fierce defender of his jungle domain, he was battling to retrieve his sacred baby elephant, Khon, which had been kidnapped and taken to Australia in “The Protector” (2006). That worked out well enough. So when the director, Prachya Pinkaew, and his favorite elbows-of-fury actor, Tony Jaa, were finished with their “Ong Bak” trilogy, they brought the whole gang back in “The Protector 2.” That includes Kham (Mr. Jaa); his friend Mark, the Interpol agent (Mum Jokmok); and Khon, who is kidnapped once more.
— Daniel M. Gold